Those of you who, for various reasons, have yet to get a Covid-19 booster shot now have an option that’s not a messenger RNA vaccine. The FDA on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s vaccine as a first booster shot. The regulatory decision covers those 18 and older who don’t have access to an authorized bivalent mRNA booster as well as those can’t […]
Prenuvo wants to transform medical imaging from something that people undergo infrequently to a process that is more like “the dentist for the rest of your body,” according to co-founder and CEO Andrew Lacy. With the company’s technology, he said patients can easily access quick, whole-body scans that can catch diseases early and give them peace of mind about their […]
Global architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman (New York) elevated 10 healthcare sector team members to the roles of principal and associate principal. The new principals are: Rachel Birnboim, Shannon Cole, Derek Hamilton, Cristian Mare, Valerie Mutterperl, Daena Tamborini Padilla, and Steven Wright. Additionally, David Larson, Eric Pan, and Matthew Young were named associate principals.
After completing its spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) in July, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is full speed ahead on expanding its home health operations. To do that, Enhabit has three guiding principles for its strategy moving forward — those are “scale, market density, and then overlap strategy,” Jay Duty told Home Health Care News. Duty was recently appointed […]
Last week, just a couple of hours into a house-sitting stint in Massachusetts for my cousin and his wife, I received from them a flummoxed text: “Dude,” it read. “We are the only people in masks.” Upon arriving at the airport, and then boarding their flight, they’d been shocked to find themselves virtually alone in wearing masks of any kind. […]
Investing in mental health resources, standardizing technology usage and supporting diverse recruitment efforts are among the National Academy of Medicine’s recommendation support healthcare workers and address widespread and worsening burnout. The National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being, released Wednesday, details the need for healthcare leaders, insurers, educators and government agencies to work together to reduce administrative burdens and the strain healthcare […]
Sutter Health has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle allegations of improper billing practices, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California. Federal investigators alleged the Sacramento, California-based not-for-profit billed government health programs for thousands of lab tests it didn’t perform, violating the federal False Claims Act. The tests in question were urine […]
Maternal mortality rose during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the virus contributing to a quarter of all maternal deaths in 2020 and 2021. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), COVID-19 caused most of the increases in maternal deaths in the last two years, causing 25 percent of them. The average number of […]